Never Say Never Again (film) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Never Say Never Again (film) 2,117pages on Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. Warhead 2000 (proposed) Never Say Never Again is the second James Bond theatrical film not produced by EON Productions and the second film adaptation of the story Thunderball . Released in 1983, it stars Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was released theatrically by Warner Bros. The film is not considered part of the canon of the Bond film franchise from EON Productions and United Artists , despite its currently being handled by the official film series distributor, MGM. MGM acquired the distribution rights in 1997 after their acquisition of Orion Pictures. The film also marks the culmination of a long legal battle between United Artists and Kevin McClory .

Its release opposite the franchise Bond film Octopussy (starring Roger Moore ) quickly led the media to dub the situation the " Battle of the Bonds ". In November 2013, the McClory Estate and EON Productions reached an agreement transferring all rights to Fleming's Thunderball, the organization of , and the character of Ernst Stavro Blofeld to EON. Contents [ show ] Plot summary Being the second adaptation of the novel Thunderball, Never Say Never Again follows a similar plotline to the earlier film, but with some differences. The film opens with a middle-aged, yet still athletic James Bond making his way through an armed camp in order to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped. After killing the kidnappers, Bond lets his guard down, forgetting that the girl might have been subject to Stockholm syndrome (in which a kidnapped person comes to identify with his/her kidnappers) and is stabbed to death by her. Or so it seems. In fact, the attack on the camp is nothing more than a field training exercise using blank ammunition and fake knives, and one Bond fails because he ends up "dead". A new M is now in office, one who sees little use for the 00-section.

In fact, Bond has spent most of his recent time teaching, rather than doing, a fact he points out with some resentment. Feeling that Bond is slipping, M orders him to enroll in a health clinic in order to "eliminate all those free radicals" and get back into shape. While there, Bond discovers a mysterious nurse, Fatima Blush , and her patient, who is wrapped in bandages. His suspicions are aroused even further when a thug (Lippe) tries to kill him. Blush and her charge, an American Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi , are in fact operatives of SPECTRE , a criminal organization run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld . Petachi has undergone an operation to alter one of his retinas to match the retinal pattern of the American President. Using his position as a pilot, and the president's eye pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American military base in England and orders the dummy warheads in two cruise missiles replaced with two live nuclear warheads, which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the world.

M reluctantly reactivates the 00 section, and Bond is assigned the task of tracking down the missing weapons, beginning with a rendezvous with Domino Petachi , the pilot's sister, who is kept a virtual prisoner by her lover, Maximillian Largo . Bond pursues Largo and his yacht to the Bahamas , where he engages Domino, Fatima Blush, and Largo in a game of wits and resources as he attempts to derail SPECTRE 's scheme. Changes to the Bond universe The film makes a few changes to the James Bond universe. MI6 is shown to be underfunded and understaffed, particularly with regards to Q-Branch, and the character Q is referred to by the name "Algernon", and is presumably a different individual than the Q in the official Bond films (whose name is Major Boothroyd). The film also appears to take place in an "alternate universe" in which none of the events of You Only Live Twice , On Her Majesty's Secret Service , Diamonds Are Forever and the opening sequence of For Your Eyes Only have occurred, since Blofeld is alive and apparently previously unknown to Bond and MI6.

Despite sharing many basic similarities with Thunderball, the course of events throughout the film are different enough for it to be more than a direct remake, and the action clearly takes place at a much later date (contemporary with the film's production). The film is notable for depicting Felix Leiter , Bond's CIA colleague, as an African-American, something which would not occur in the EON series until Casino Royale in 2006. The film also makes a major departure from official continuity by ending with Bond indicating his intention to retire from MI6 - while Bond had considered retirement in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, he is shown to be unsure of the decision and later chooses to stay with the service. In the scene where Bond states his intention to quit, Connery breaks the fourth wall by winking at the camera; while this is incorrectly considered by many as being unique to this film, George Lazenby was in fact the first Bond to break the fourth wall almost 15 years earlier when he told the audience, "This never happened to the other fellow" (referring to Connery, the man he had replaced as Bond).

Production Never Say Never Again had its origins in the early 1960s, following the controversy over the 1961 Thunderball novel . [1] Fleming had worked with independent producer Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham on a script for a potential Bond film, to be called Longitude 78 West, [2] which was subsequently abandoned because of the costs involved. [3] Fleming, "always reluctant to let a good idea lie idle", [3] turned this into the novel Thunderball, for which he did not credit either McClory or Whittingham; [4] McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright [4] and the matter was settled in 1963. [2] After Eon Productions started producing the Bond films, it subsequently made a deal with McClory, who would produce Thunderball, and then not make any further version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version in 1965. [5] Warhead (1978) concept artwork - interior of the Statue of Liberty depicting docking chamber with a submarine, and a robot 'Hammerhead' shark hanging.

In the mid-1970s McClory again started working on a project to bring a Thunderball adaptation to production and, with the working title Warhead, he brought writer Len Deighton together with Sean Connery to work on a script. [6] The script ran into difficulties after accusations from Eon Productions that the project had gone beyond copyright restrictions, which confined McClory to a film based on the Thunderball novel only, and once again the project was deferred. [5] Towards the end of the 1970s developments were reported on the project under the name James Bond of the Secret Service, [5] but when producer Jack Schwartzman became involved and cleared a number of the legal issues that still surrounded the project [1] he brought on board scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr. [7] to work on the screenplay. Connery was unhappy with some aspects of the work and asked Tom Mankiewicz who had rewritten Diamonds Are Forever to work on the script; however Mankiewicz declined as he felt he was under a moral obligation to Cubby Broccoli.

[8] Connery then hired British television writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais [9] to undertake re-writes, although they went uncredited for their efforts because of a restriction by the Writers Guild of America . [6] The film underwent one final change in title: after Connery had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever he had pledged that he would "never" play Bond again. [6] Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband's vow [10] and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits "Title "Never Say Never Again" by: Micheline Connery". A final attempt by Fleming's trustees to block the film was made in the High Court in London in the spring of 1983, but this was thrown out by the court and Never Say Never Again was permitted to proceed. [5] Cast and crew When producer Kevin McClory had first planned the film in 1964 he held initial talks with Richard Burton for the part of Bond, [11] although the project came to nothing because of the legal issues involved.

When the Warhead project was launched in the late 1970s, a number of actors were mentioned in the trade press, including Orson Welles for the part of Blofeld, Trevor Howard to play M and Richard Attenborough as director. [6] In 1978 the working title James Bond of the Secret Service was being used and Connery was in the frame once again, potentially going head-to-head with the next Eon Bond film, Moonraker . [12] By 1980, with legal issues again causing the project to founder, [6] Connery thought himself unlikely to play the role, as he stated in an interview in the Sunday Express : "when I first worked on the script with Len I had no thought of actually being in the film". [13] When producer Jack Schwartzman became involved, he asked Connery to play Bond; Connery agreed, asking (and getting) a fee of $3 million, ($7 million in 2016 dollars) a percentage of the profits, as well as casting and script approval.

[6] Subsequent to Connery reprising the role, the script has several references to Bond's advancing years – playing on Connery being 52 at the time of filming [6] – and academic Jeremy Black has pointed out that there are other aspects of age and disillusionment in the film, such as the Shrubland's porter referring to Bond's car ("They don't make them like that anymore."), the new M having no use for the 00 section and Q with his reduced budgets. [14] For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto . [7] Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, [15] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the film. [16] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball.

[6] Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, [17] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood . [18] Micheline Connery, Sean's wife, had met up-and-coming actress Kim Basinger at a hotel in London and suggested her to Connery, which he agreed upon. [6] For the role of Felix Leiter, Connery spoke with Bernie Casey, saying that as the Leiter role was never remembered by audiences, using a black Leiter might make him more memorable. [7] Others cast included comedian Rowan Atkinson , who would later parody Bond in his role of Johnny English . [19] Former Eon Productions' editor and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service , Peter R. Hunt , was approached to direct the film but declined due to his previous work with Eon. [20] Irvin Kershner, who had achieved success in 1980 with The Empire Strikes Back was then hired.

A number of the crew from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were also appointed, including first assistant director David Tomblin , director of photography Douglas Slocombe and production designers Philip Harrison and Stephen Grimes . [7] [15] Filming The Kingdom 5KR which acted as Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer Filming for Never Say Never Again began on 27 September 1982 on the French Riviera for two months [6] before moving to Nassau, the Bahamas in mid-November [7] where filming took place at Clifton Pier, which was also one of the locations used in Thunderball. [6] The Spanish city of Almería was also used as a location. [21] Largo's Palmyran fortress was actually historic Fort Carré in Antibes . [22] For Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer, the yacht Nabila, owned by Saudi billionaire, Adnan Khashoggi, was used. The boat, now owned by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, has subsequently been renamed the Kingdom 5KR. [23] Principal photography finished at Elstree Studios where interior shots were filmed.

[6] Elstree also housed the Tears of Allah underwater cavern, which took three months to construct. [6] Most of the filming was completed in the spring of 1983, although there was some additional shooting during the summer of 1983. [7] Production on the film was troubled, [15] with Connery taking on many of the production duties with assistant director David Tomblin. [6] Director Irvin Kershner was critical of producer Jack Schwartzman, saying that whilst he was a good businessman, "he didn't have the experience of a film producer". [6] After the production ran out of money, Schwartzman had to fund further production out of his own pocket and later admitted he had underestimated the amount the film would cost to make. [15] Steven Seagal , who was the fight choreographer for this film, broke Connery's wrist while training. On an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , Connery revealed he did not know his wrist was broken until over a decade later. [24] Many of the elements of the Eon-produced Bond films were not present in Never Say Never Again for legal reasons.

These included the gun barrel sequence , where a screen full of 007 symbols appeared instead, and similarly there was no " James Bond Theme " to use, although no effort was made to supply another tune. [7] A pre-credits sequence was filmed but not used; [15] instead the film opens with the credits run over the top of the opening sequence of Bond on a training mission. [6] Music The music for Never Say Never Again was written by Michel Legrand , who composed a score similar to his work as a jazz pianist. [25] The score has been criticised as "anachronistic and misjudged", [6] "bizarrely intermittent" [15] and "the most disappointing feature of the film". [7] Legrand also wrote the main theme "Never Say Never Again", which featured lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman —who had also worked with Legrand in the Academy Award winning song, " The Windmills of Your Mind " [26] —and was performed by Lani Hall [7] after Bonnie Tyler , who disliked the song, had reluctantly declined.

[27] Phyllis Hyman also recorded a potential theme song, written by Stephen Forsyth and Jim Ryan, but the song—an unsolicited submission—was passed over given Legrand's contractual obligations with the music. [28] Cast and Characters Never Say Never Again (1983) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ) PG | A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.

Director: Irvin Kershner Writers: Kevin McClory (based on an original story by), Jack Whittingham (based on an original story by) | 2 more credits » Stars: a list of 25 titles created 09 Apr 2012 a list of 28 titles created 26 Jun 2013 a list of 25 titles created 09 Dec 2014 a list of 25 titles created 10 Dec 2014 a list of 24 titles created 5 months ago Title: Never Say Never Again (1983) 6.2/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. See more awards » Videos A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.

Director: Guy Hamilton A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. Director: John Glen James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. Director: Terence Young Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. Director: Lewis Gilbert Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Director: John Glen An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley. Director: John Glen James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. Director: Lewis Gilbert 007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.

Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. Director: Lewis Gilbert James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov. Director: John Glen James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE. Director: Terence Young Edit Storyline SPECTRE agents under the command of Ernst Blofeld infiltrate a US air force base situated in the UK and steal two Tomahawk cruise missiles. When NATO is held to ransom, the British reactive their "00" agents and send James Bond to recapture the warheads and kill Blofeld. Written by Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk> Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis Plot Keywords: SEAN CONNERY is JAMES BOND in...

See more » Genres: 7 October 1983 (USA) See more » Also Known As: 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)| Dolby Stereo (35 mm prints) (in selected theatres) Color: Did You Know? Trivia Prior to the 2013 settlement between the McClory Estate and MGM & EON Productions, according to the 20-26 October 1997 edition of show-business trade paper 'Variety', characters and situations the late Kevin McClory claimed he exclusively owned included S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

and the organisation's octopus logo; Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his white cat; the Bond Girl characters Fiona Volpe (who appears in Thunderball (1965)) played by Luciana Paluzzi ), Fatima Blush (who appears in Never Say Never Again (1983) played by Barbara Carrera ), and Domino Smith (played by Claudine Auger (appearance) and Nikki Van der Zyl (voice - uncredited) in Thunderball (1965) as Domino Derval (aka Dominique Derval), and also played by Kim Basinger in Never Say Never Again (1983) as Domino Petachi); the Bahamas location (though this setting was still used in Casino Royale (2006)); the Shrublands Health Clinic; the James Bond character versus the Sicilian Mafia (an original plot outline for Thunderball (1965)) as well as Bond tackling an A-bomb hijacking scheme; a Flying Saucer Yacht with a hidden hydrofoil (which features in Thunderball (1965) with the vessel being called 'The Disco Volante'); and a customised rocket-firing motorcycle (which Sean Connery as James Bond rides in the Thunderball (

1965) remake Never Say Never Again (1983)).

See more » Goofs Leiter emerges from the water after spying on the yacht and removes a hood - that he wasn't wearing underwater. See more » Quotes Q : Rather tasty this is. It looks like a watch, but, it's really a laser. It keeps perfect time. Time Out Top Critic If you haven't seen 'Thunderball,' this is a lot more enjoyable, but matched up against one of the more exciting 007 films, 'Never Say Never' fails to do it better. October 30, 2015 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review… Jeffrey Lyles Lyles' Movie Files It's not a rap against Roger Moore to say that this film seems to bring James Bond back to life. Sean Connery did, after all, define the character. September 9, 2015 | Full Review… People Magazine Sean Connery is still up to par as James Bond in the latest adventure of Agent 007. David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor The plot, which owes much to Thunderball, lurches badly at times, but the wild action set pieces, decked out in gals, gadgets and glib lines, are there to be cherished.

September 9, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… John Marriott Radio Times A fitting farewell to 007's most enduring embodiment: as much a playful send-up as a loving final embrace. October 7, 2013 | Rating: B | Full Review… Rob Vaux Mania.com Can we just consider 1983 a lost year for James Bond? First, "Octopussy," then Sean Connery's return in a depressing dilution of the 007 brand - one that ends with a fourth wall-breaking wink indicative less of arch fun, more of bored indifference. November 11, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… Bond Girls: Never Say Never Again (1983) Never Say Never Again (1983) Greatest Bond Girls in James Bond Films Title Screen Film Title/Year/Director, Bond Girl (Actress) Screenshots d.

Irvin Kershner Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera) Although not considered part of the original canon of Bond films, and the first Bond film to not use a Fleming-inspired title, this unofficial film was basically a remake of Thunderball (1965) . The film's femme fatale - well-dressed Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera), first seen from the legs down - with black leather pants, a pair of black high-heels and a fur coat, entered a French bank's vault, where a secret passageway led downstairs to a highly-secure area where a meeting was being conducted by SPECTRE's head Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Max von Sydow), holding and petting a white Persian cat. She was revealed to be sexy terrorist operative (No. 12) for SPECTRE. Her duty was to attend to a blackmailed and abducted American Air Force officer, Captain Jack Petachi (Gavan O'Herlihy), who had undergone a surgical eye operation - a corneal implant to make his right eye identical to that of the US President, to circumvent security.

The NATO pilot, SPECTRE's puppet, was moved to a convalescent clinic, where Blush had the responsibility of providing for his private care. It was the same clinic, the Shrublands Health Farm/Clinic near London, where out-of-commission 007 Bond (Sean Connery) was ordered to shape up. Addicted Captain Jack Petachi was being attended by evil and rough henchwoman Fatima, dressed as a health clinic nurse (with syringes strapped to her thigh), who was injecting him with "candy" to hook him on heroin. "Now darling, do this little trickie in eight seconds. Then nursie will give baby his candy. Hmm?" She abused her patient, accusing him of disobeying her by smoking, and then threatened: "Jack must do as he's told if he wants his fast cars and his pretty clothes and if he wants to keep his sister alive." After Petachi successfully completed his mission of authorizing the launch of two cruise missiles with "live" nuclear warheads from a strategic bomber, Fatima pulled up in her gold-metallic Mercedes-Benz SL convertible next to him and deposited her pet snake in his lap -- distracted, his car crashed into a brick wall and overturned.

To ensure his death, she placed a remote-controlled bomb in the wreck and detonated it, after rescuing her snake. She was working for SPECTRE, which threatened to blow up two "live" nuclear warheads placed in cruise missiles as part of an extortion plot against all of NATO's world governments. As Bond stood at a water-side bar after arriving in Nassau the Bahamas to pursue Spectre No. 1 Maximillian Largo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), the agent was sprayed by Fatima, who was performing stunts on water-skis and landed in his arms after skiing up a ramp: "How reckless of me. I made you all wet." Bond was unperturbed: "Yes, but my martini's still dry.

My name is James." After introducing herself, Bond complimented her on her skiing, and she added: "I do many things very well." When he said he was there to fish, she offered to personally show him the "best waters," adding as she smiled: "I'd like you to find what you're looking for." He agreed: "I'm all yours." On their hired scuba boat, the vixenish Fatima summoned him to the interior cabin, where they engaged in dialogue foreplay after she threw him some scuba-gear and he undressed in front of her. Bond: "You're marvelously well-equipped." Fatima (looking down): "Thank you, James. So are you." He asked: "What, uh, exactly are we going down for?" Fatima: "Sport and a little fun." She watched as Bond became naked, and he advised her to be less tense and more relaxed when "going down." She removed her flimsy dress strap as she put her arms around his neck and provocatively said: "We've got time to kill." After an extended period of love-making in the scuba equipment room, they went diving together.

Her first attempt to kill the agent failed when he discovered a shark-attracting transmitter that she had placed on his scuba tank gear. Her second attempt to eliminate the agent by placing an explosive under his hotel-room bed and detonating it was also foiled, when Bond decided to make love not in his own room, but in the room of another Bond girl, the Lady in the Bahamas (Valerie Leon). At the Casino Royale in Monte Carlo where her boss Largo was hosting a charity ball, Fatima schemed - urging Largo to execute the British agent James Bond - who might persuade his blonde paramour Domino (Kim Basinger) to change sides. Largo asked if she had bungled her own attempts because "you want him for yourself," and then ordered Fatima to kill Bond - "this time, you'd better not fail." At Bond's villa, Fatima killed Bond's young French operative Nicole (Saskia Cohen Tanugi) by stuffing her inside a waterbed. Riding a turbo-power boosted motorbike, Bond pursued the maniacal murderess in her red 1983 Renault 5 Turbo.

When Bond was knocked off his bike, the domineering Fatima held him at gunpoint, ordering "spread your legs." She threatened to shoot his crotch: "You're quite a man, Mr. James Bond. But I am a superior woman! Guess where you'll get the first one." He talked back: "Well, in view of your hatred of men..." - but she yelled: "LIAR! You know that making love to Fatima was the greatest pleasure of your life." Bond differed: "Well, to be perfectly honest, there was this girl in Philadelphia." She shot back: "SHUT UP! I am the best." Bond agreed: "In fact, I was going to put you in my memoirs as No. 1." She commanded him to write a note on a scrap piece of newspaper about her love-making abilities, dictating: "The greatest rapture in my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush.

Signed, James Bond 007." Bond quipped: "I just remembered, it's against Service policy for agents to give out endorsements." She blurted back: "WRITE!" Fatima met her demise when Bond fired a miniature rocket grenade into her chest from his Union Jack-decorated projectile fountain pen. She cackled, believing she was still alive, but then the grenade exploded, leaving only her charred high-heeled stilettos behind. Bond muttered to himself regarding the powerful nib, that was supposedly not ready: "Not perfected yet?" [Note: Barbara Carrera received a Golden Globe nomination for her supporting role portrayal of Fatima Blush.] Never Say Never Again (1983) Patricia Fearing (Prunella Gee) Shrublands clinic patient Bond (Sean Connery) met blonde physiotherapist/nurse Patricia Fearing (Prunella Gee) when he accidentally bumped into her in the hallway. He introduced himself: "My name is Bond." She knew of his reputation: "Oh, you're Mr.

Bond." During a painful back-cracking session with her, Bond suggested: "You know, there is a more beneficial therapy for a man's lower back." She replied: "Oh really? What might that be?" Later that day, she came to his private room's door and personally offered him his healthful dinner on a tray: "I thought I'd surprise you, James." He opened his suitcase, filled with contraband food he had smuggled in: "caviar, quail's eggs, vodka, foie gras" and offered her a bite. Soon after, he bedded her down (off-screen) with another forbidden treat. The next day, as Bond proceeded to work out in the clinic's gym, he informed his doctor that he was a bit piqued, explaining (in Patricia's presence): "I was up all night." Never Say Never Again (1983) Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger) In SPECTRE No.

1 Maximillian Largo's (Klaus Maria Brandauer) control room aboard his Flying Saucer yacht somewhere in the Atlantic, a sliding panel door revealed a workout studio where he spied through a one-way mirror, watching his blonde "lady" kept-lover Domino Petachi (Kim Basinger) in a gray leotard exercising and stretching to music. Domino was next seen on Largo's yacht docked in the South of France near Nice. That afternoon, Bond followed Domino to a massage parlor and posed as a masseuse. After she requested a "hard" massage, her turned her over onto her front-side before oiling her up and rubbing down her back, and mentioned casually that he knew of Largo: "I know he owns many beautiful things." Bond learned that Largo, known as a "very generous man," was hosting a charity ball at the Casino Royale in Monte Carlo (Monaco) that evening to benefit orphaned children. When she asked for him to massage lower, he obliged until the real masseuse arrived and apologized for being late. When Domino learned the man didn't work at the salon, she shrugged and smiled to herself.

At the benefit that evening, Bond apologized to her for his earlier deception, introduced himself formally, and bought her a Bloody Mary drink. Largo challenged Bond to a futuristic, 3-D holographic video-game of Domination, and lost $267,000, although Bond exchanged his winnings for a single tango dance with Domino. As they danced, she asked: "What is it you're after?" Bond told her that her brother was working for Largo, but was murdered: "Largo's the prime suspect. Your brother was used and then eliminated." Bond was taken onboard Largo's Flying Saucer yacht en route to Palmyra, his base of operations in North Africa. In the workout studio onboard, Bond met up with Domino, and to "provoke a reaction" (and "because I've always wanted to"), and sensing that the extremely-jealous Largo was spying on them through a mirror, he kissed her. At Palmyra, Largo announced to Bond: "The game is over" and had him imprisoned. He gave Domino his "greatest treasure" as a wedding present - a large jade statuette, although he knew that she had betrayed him.

She angrily confronted him about her missing brother: "I hate you." He coerced a kiss from her, as she accused him of madness: "You're crazy." He replied: "Yeah, maybe. I'm crazy." To punish her, he bound her in black cloth and auctioned her off to gun-wielding Arabs on horseback in an open square. Bond escaped from his prison shackles, stole a horse and rescued Domino from the unsavory Arabs by riding off with her. The two dove off a tall gated wall - still on horseback - into the water far below. On the naval submarine after being rescued, Bond and Domino showered together (Bond: "It was never like this when I was in the Navy"), and both were eager to go after Largo, although she confessed: "Maybe I don't hate him enough to risk losing you" - and they kissed. In the film's climactic underwater battle against Largo, Bond engaged him in combat, but it was vengeful Domino who speared him with a harpoon-gun and killed him.

Never Say Never Again (1983) The Lady in the Bahamas (Valerie Leon) On a mission to Nassau in the Bahamas, Bond was on the dock at the harbor where he happened to encounter orange-bikinied female (Valerie Leon), dubbed the Lady in the Bahamas, who was preparing to go fishing. He asked jovially: "What are you hoping to catch?" She flirtatiously answered: "Something about six foot two, 190 pounds, with brown eyes." He joked: "Well, why bother going to sea?" When Bond was interrupted, she added: "Catch you later, perhaps?" After his scuba tank was sabotaged by another Bond girl Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera) during a dive, and he was attacked by numerous sharks, he swam to the surface where he emerged near the fishing boat of the woman at the dock, who exclaimed: "It's you." He responded: "Well, you did say you'd catch me later." Back at the dock, Fatima noticed from afar that Bond had survived and was on the deck of the fishing boat with the rival Bond girl, showing off their fish-catch.

Bond and the unnamed lady returned to their hotel together, where they both had separate rooms - they were first seen in bed together in one of the rooms making love. Fortunately, a bomb planted by Fatima and detonated in Bond's room escaped hurting both of them - they were making love in her room. Bond quipped when he saw his room blown up from across the way: "Proof that we made the right decision." She asked: "About what, darling?" He responded: "Your place or mine." Greatest Bond Girls in James Bond Films (chronological, each Bond film a separate page) 007 Never Say Never Again Theme Song - YouTube 007 Never Say Never Again Theme Song Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Oct 27, 2008 Ah, yes. The rogue 007 film that was made to rival "Octopussy". The hideous remake of the spectacular 1965 film "Thunderball".

This video is for the minority who can actually sit through the film without tearing their eyeballs to shreds. Please Rate/Fav/Comment/Subscribe help spread the word List of Unofficial James Bond Movies List of Unofficial James Bond Movies Summary The complete list of unofficial James Bond films, lesser known than the 24 official films made by EON Productions. Includes multiple adaptions of Casino Royale, and a remake of Thunderball. 48 Minutes Synopsis: American secret agent "Card sense Jimmy" Bond meets British agent Clarence Leiter at Casino Royale. Bond teaches Leiter how to play baccarat, and then defeats Soviet villain Le Chiffre at a high stakes game. Le Chiffre, afraid that the KGB will kill him for gambling away their money, tries to steal it back from Bond. Bond prevails, killing Le Chiffre and winning back his girlfriend. #2 Casino Royale, 1967 131 Minutes Synopsis: Sir James Bond, played by David Niven, is forced out of retirement when M blows up his house!

In a psychedelic spoof of the Sean Connery films, Niven takes over MI6 and renames every agent 'James Bond' to confuse the enemy (who turns out to be lead by his nephew.) #3 Never Say Never Again, 1983 James Bond: 134 Minutes Synopsis: Never Say Never Again is a remake of Thunderball by Kevin McClory, who sued for the film rights to the book. The title refers to the fact that Sean Connery vowed he would "Never Again" play Bond, after filming Diamonds Are Forever . With an almost identical plot to Thunderball, SPECTRE steal two nuclear warheads and try to extort NATO. Bond must eliminate SPECTRE before they make good on their threats. Lippe (Pat Roach) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia SPECTRE operative who appeared in the 1983 unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never Again , portrayed by Pat Roach . The character is a re-imagining of the literary and film character who first appeared in Ian Fleming 's 1961 novel Thunderball and was subsequently adapted for EON Productions ' 1965 James Bond film of the same name .

Film biography Unlike the previous versions of Count Lippe , in Never Say Never Again there is no mention of him being a count. Also he is not directly involved in SPECTRE 's plot to have Jack Petachi (this film's version of François Derval / Angelo Palazzi ) steal NATO nuclear warheads. Instead, he is merely an assassin sent by Fatima Blush to kill Bond at the health clinic. Unlike previous versions of the character, Lippe possesses almost superhuman strength, similar to EON characters Oddjob and Jaws . He and Bond have a fight that wrecks the building. Eventually, cornered in a laboratory room, Bond grabs a beaker of fluid (revealed to be Bond's urine specimen) and throws its contents into his assailant's face; resulting in the disoriented Lippe crashing backwards into a shelf full of beakers, impaling himself on the broken shards of glass.

James Bond 007 :: MI6 - The Home Of James Bond 20 Jan 1984 Facts And History Although Never Say Never Again was not released until 1983 – the same year Eon released their thirteenth installment in the James Bond canon: Octopussy – the film’s history begins 24 years earlier, when Kevin McClory and scriptwriter Jack Whittingham collaborated with Ian Fleming on a series of original treatments and scripts in 1959-60. These scripts eventually evolved into the basis for Thunderball, which was intended to be released in 1960 as the first 007 film. There were concerns, however, with McClory being the producer on the film, and in 1961, Fleming published Thunderball as a novel (plagiarizing Whittingham’s script on over 200 pages with no acknowledgments), and signed a movie deal with Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman.

Furious that they got the short end of the stick, McClory and Whittingham began taking legal action against Fleming for his plagiarism; but wanting to move forward with their deal, Broccoli and Saltzman dropped Thunderball and moved forward with Dr. No (with Richard Maibaum writing). Dr. No was released in 1962, and Broccoli and Saltzman (under the title of ‘Eon Productions’) moved forward with their next 007 film, From Russia With Love . In December 1963, McClory and Fleming settled out of court. McClory was given the film rights to Thunderball (including Blofeld and SPECTRE); but lacking financial support, he eventually turned to Eon for backing, and Thunderball was released in theaters in 1965. According to the agreement between McClory and Eon, Eon was permitted to continue using Blofeld and SPECTRE after Thunderball for the next 10 years. "Good to see you Mr. Bond. Things have been awfully dull around here. I hope we're going to see some gratuitous sex and violence!" Above: Roger Moore in "Octopussy" was in direct competition with this McClory film.

In 1976, McClory and Sean Connery began writing the script for a new 007 adventure (to be entitled either Warhead, Warhead 8, or James Bond of the Secret Service), based on Thunderball, but United Artists filed suit, and McClory did not have the financial backing for another legal battle, so plans were scrapped temporarily. Eon also planned, in early scripts , on using Blofeld and SPECTRE for its upcoming production of The Spy Who Loved Me , but upon McClory’s objection, Blofeld was replaced with Karl Stromberg , and all references to SPECTRE were removed. Then in the early 1980s, McClory met producer Jack Schwartzman, and they began working on the Warhead project again. Receiving financial backing from Warner Bros., they won a court case granting McClory the right to make his 007 film, as long as it was a basically a remake of Thunderball. Lorenzo Semple Jr. went to work on a new script, and in October 1983, Sean Connery returned as James Bond, Agent 007 in McClory and Schwartzman’s Never Say Never Again.

Above: Kevin McClory, Executive Producer onboard "Never Say Never Again". An ‘Unofficial’ Bond Film? Although Never Say Never Again stars Sean Connery as James Bond, and although the story is based strongly on Thunderball (which is considered part of the official 007 series), Never Say Never Again has always been billed as an ‘unofficial’ Bond film, for the simple reason that it was not originally produced/released under the Eon/MGM/UA mantle, and was intended as competition for the official series. Ultimately, the 'official' series was the victor, with Octopussy beating Never Say Never Again at the 1983 box office - by a margin of $23 million. In 1997, MGM did acquire the rights to this movie from Sony (who bought MGM with a group of investors in 2005), and is currently distributed for television alongside films from the official series, but most fans still view Never Say Never Again as a one-off spin-off from the official series and not part of the official canon. Did You Know?

Besides Sean Connery, only one other actor was involved in both Thunderball and Never Say Never Again – Robert Rietty provided the voice for Emilio Largo in Thunderball, and he played the Italian Minister in Never Say Never Again. Five people were involved in technical aspects of both films: Michael White, Lionel Strutt, George Leech, Ricou Browning, and Jordan Klein Sr. Related Articles

Question: The 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again is a remake of what 1965 Bond film?
Answer: Thunderball